Yahoo email targeted by hackers

Yahoo
on Thursday said its email system was recently a target of a hacking attack.

\”Recently, we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts,” the company said in a blog post.

“Upon discovery, we took immediate action to protect our users, prompting them to reset passwords on impacted accounts.\”

The company didn\’t disclose how many accounts were affected.

The company said a malicious software was used to access a list of usernames and passwords to gain access to Yahoo mail accounts. Yahoo said there was “no evidence that they were obtained directly from Yahoo’s systems.”

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